Bone Tools at the Late Pre-Hispanic Site Boyo Paso 2 (Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina)

Abstract

The aim of the article is to assess the role played by bone tools at Boyo Paso 2 (Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina), an open-air site interpreted as a basecamp seasonally occupied by mobile mixed foraging and farming people c. 900–700 years BP. The results suggest that diverse activities were carried out on-site, including hunting or warfare, tool production, food processing and rituals. Bone tool analysis may enable reconstruction of the technological level, social organization, and cultural attitude towards the environment among people neither wholly foragers nor wholly farmers, a category for which archaeology currently lacks sufficient archaeological understanding and that merits further research. IZVLE∞EK – V ≠lanku ocenjujemo vlogo ko∏≠enih orodij na najdi∏≠u Boyo Paso 2 (gorovje Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina), tj. najdi∏≠u na prostem, ki ga razlagajo kot bazni kamp, ki so ga v ≠asu ok. 900–700 pr. sed. sezonsko obiskovale me∏ane skupine nabiralcev in poljedelcev. Rezultati ka∫ejo, da so se na tem najdi∏≠u odvijale razli≠ne aktivnosti, vklju≠no z lovom ali bojevanjem, izdelava orodij, predelava hrane in rituali. S pomo≠jo analize ko∏≠enih orodij lahko rekonstruiramo tehnolo∏ko raven, dru∫beno organizacijo in odnos do okolja te skupine ljudi, ki niso ne povsem nabiralci, ne povsem kmetje, kar pa je kategorija, za katero arheologija trenutno ∏e nima zadostnega arheolo∏kega razumevanja in si zaslu∫i nadaljnje raziskave.